i'm joe scarborough here in boston this morning. with us still on set in new york, we've got donny deutsch, steve rattner, michael steele and katty kay. and joining the table, former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national committee, howard dean. howard, you just look where the democrats are sitting right now, and you think about what a long, long way this party is from where it was when you took over. and you told everybody you needed to adopt a 50-state strategy. people thought you were crazy. now you're hearing top republican leaders saying we need to do what howard dean when his own party thought he was crazy and adopt a 50-state strategy. so now that democrats are where you dreamed they would be when you started that 50-state strategy, do they go for the deal, or do they go to make republicans sweat? >> they've got to make some sort of a deal, but the deal has to be the right deal. and i still believe that it's safer, if you're on the progressive end of the political spectrum, to go over the fiscal cl